Last Updated: July 20, 2026

Ali Khatib Haji HASSAN

Aliases

Ali Khatib HAJI

Ali Khatibu HAJI

Maiko Joseph ALEX

Abdallah SHAKUR

SHKUBA

SHIKUBA

Nationality

Tanzania

Date of birth

1970-06-05; 1963-01-01; 1970-06-08

Place of birth

Zanzibar, Tanzania; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sex

Male

Reg. ID

AB269600, Passport; AB360821, Passport; AB564505, Passport; A0389018, Passport; AB179561, Passport; A0010167, Passport

Function

Drug cartel/Mafia

Official reason

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) identified Tanzanian national Ali Khatib Haji Hassan (a.k.a. “Shkuba”) and the Hassan Drug Trafficking Organization as significant foreign narcotics traffickers pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). Hassan is a major international drug kingpin who smuggles multi-ton shipments of heroin and cocaine to Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America via his East Africa-based drug trafficking organization.

Sender

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl0378

Date of listing

2016-03-09

Program information

Authority

Program

Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598

Regime

OFAC-horizontal

Target State

Drugs

Measures

Blocking Property

Official Information

The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 598 (FNKSR), implement the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901–1908), which provides authority for the application of sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations operating worldwide.

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/17/2021-10314/narcotics-trafficking-sanctions-regulations-and-foreign-narcotics-kingpin-sanctions-regulations

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